Number 36

In Québec Max under the 7/50 · May 2025 – Apr 2026 rules — 96 draws, 7 from 1–50 (an earlier era).

16times drawn · chance expected 13 +0.75σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 64% for any number

5.9average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

18longest completed wait · 70% chance of one at least that long

36 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, +0.75σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 36, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 96 draws · average wait 5.9 draws · longest completed wait 18 · waiting 4 draws now

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 36 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.1
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.7
4th smallest3 · chance 2.7
5th smallest3 · chance 5.5
6th smallest4 · chance 5.2
7th smallest5 · chance 1.9

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 2.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

5 9 11 14 25 29

Never drawn alongside 8 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 7 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 36 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 34th most popular of 50. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 36 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-04-07	6	4th	4 11 24 36 37 45 50
2026-03-17	7	6th	14 17 30 32 34 36 46
2026-02-20	2	6th	5 7 27 29 34

What this cannot tell you

Nothing here predicts the next draw. A number’s history is a record of a fair machine’s past, and the machine keeps none of it: 36 is drawn with probability 7/50 tonight whatever it did last week.